Re: [gnome-cy] Windows in Welsh, at public expense?

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Iau, 2003-11-20 at 17:55, Chris M. Jackson wrote:
> All of this, assuming that nobody puts together a specialist Linux 
> distribution targeted at Wales in the meantime.

Even a minor Welsh distribution would help. At that point the assembly
would be breaking a lot of policy by funding competition to an existing
commercial organisation.

In effect if it exists its very hard for people like the WDA to fund a
rival without lots of inconvenience, especially if they know in advance
it exists.

A long time ago the WDA actually had to kill a roadshow it had planned
for setting up a funded Welsh ISP to kickstart Internet in welsh
business because a commercial company offering that existed. Even though
it was planned for, budgetted for and designed...



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